Andre Retterath

Essays

Every VC Wants to Automate. Almost Nobody Does It.

Mar 12, 2026

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7 min read

Every VC Wants to Automate. Almost Nobody Does It.

10 Takeaways From Our DDVC x Munich Meetup That Will Transform Your Workflows

Andre Retterath

Insights

💡What "Founder Friendly" Actually Means, What's Too Many Managers?, Startup Funding vs. Hiring Divergence, Fundraising Benchmarks & More

Mar 10, 2026

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13 min read

💡What "Founder Friendly" Actually Means, What's Too Many Managers?, Startup Funding vs. Hiring Divergence, Fundraising Benchmarks & More

Funding Up 64%, Hiring Down 10%, First VC Shakeout Since Dotcom (..)

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

Mar 8, 2026

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13 min read

🔥15 Hottest Startups in March 2026

Stealth & Startup Profiles With Most Investor Views on Harmonic Right Now

Andre Retterath

Essays

The Question Every VC Is Sitting With Right Now

Mar 5, 2026

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8 min read

The Question Every VC Is Sitting With Right Now

What Do You Actually Do With Traditional SaaS Portfolio Companies in a World That's Permanently Repriced Them?

Andre Retterath

Insights

💡Why First-Time Funds Outperform, Lessons From Scaling to $350M, Startup Survival Rates, ARR Levels at IPO & More

Mar 3, 2026

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14 min read

💡Why First-Time Funds Outperform, Lessons From Scaling to $350M, Startup Survival Rates, ARR Levels at IPO & More

New Research from Stanford, Odin, Carta, SaaStr & Others

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

How to Automate Investments With OpenClaw, Claude, n8n & More

Mar 1, 2026

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4 min read

How to Automate Investments With OpenClaw, Claude, n8n & More

Learnings from Accel, Atomico, Balderton, BlackRock, Earlybird, LocalGlobe, NFX, Point Nine, Tribe Capital & Others

Andre Retterath

Essays

Do You Still Need Analysts? The Investment Firm of 2030: Fewer People, Better Decisions

Feb 26, 2026

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13 min read

Do You Still Need Analysts? The Investment Firm of 2030: Fewer People, Better Decisions

How AI Reshapes the Venture Capital Org Chart From the Bottom Up

Andre Retterath

Insights

📊Impact of Geo-Focus on Fund Performance, State of Pre-Seed, Rise of Secondaries, Leveraging Personal Emails & More

Feb 24, 2026

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11 min read

📊Impact of Geo-Focus on Fund Performance, State of Pre-Seed, Rise of Secondaries, Leveraging Personal Emails & More

New Research from Theory Ventures, Carta, Growth Unhinged, Pave & Others

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in February 2026

Feb 22, 2026

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15 min read

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in February 2026

SpaceX, xAI, Anthropic, OpenAI & More

Andre Retterath

Essays

How to Create Defensibility in the Age of AI?

Feb 19, 2026

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13 min read

How to Create Defensibility in the Age of AI?

The Evolution From Data Silos to Full Context to Agentic Abstraction

Andre Retterath

Insights

🔥Wealth Trends 2026: Where Investment Flows, Can VC Scale?, Seed-to-Series A Graduation, AI Value Framework & More

Feb 17, 2026

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13 min read

🔥Wealth Trends 2026: Where Investment Flows, Can VC Scale?, Seed-to-Series A Graduation, AI Value Framework & More

New Research from MSCI Wealth, Bessemer, Carta, Odin & More

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

How Investors Use OpenClaw to Automate Daily Workflows

Feb 15, 2026

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18 min read

How Investors Use OpenClaw to Automate Daily Workflows

30 Min Setup Guide, Workflow Examples Like Inbound Deal Flow Processing, Portfolio Monitoring, LP Comms & More

Andre Retterath

Essays

📣New Speaker Announcement + Limited Discounts🏃‍♀️💨

Feb 12, 2026

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4 min read

📣New Speaker Announcement + Limited Discounts🏃‍♀️💨

Secure 33% Discount for the Virtual DDVC Summit 23-25th March 2026

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥Why Repeat Founders Outperform, ARR Thresholds to Raise in 2026, Hold vs Sell After IPO & More

Feb 10, 2026

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12 min read

💥Why Repeat Founders Outperform, ARR Thresholds to Raise in 2026, Hold vs Sell After IPO & More

New Research from JP Morgan, Carta, Growth Unhinged & Others

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

Feb 8, 2026

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23 min read

🔥30 Hottest Startups in February 2026

Measured by Investor Interest, Headcount, Website Traffic & More

Andre Retterath

Essays

💥My #1 Recommendation for 2026: Start Using Claude Cowork NOW

Feb 5, 2026

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11 min read

💥My #1 Recommendation for 2026: Start Using Claude Cowork NOW

The 5-Step Framework To Never Repeat A Task Again

Andre Retterath

Insights

🔥Impact of Reserve Strategy on Fund Performance, Building Habits to Find PMF, Top 40 AI x GTM Plays & More

Feb 3, 2026

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11 min read

🔥Impact of Reserve Strategy on Fund Performance, Building Habits to Find PMF, Top 40 AI x GTM Plays & More

New Research from Carta, Growth Unhinged, Stanford & Others

Andre Retterath, +1

Essays

💥Startup Screening With LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

Jan 29, 2026

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7 min read

💥Startup Screening With LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

Access Our New Paper + Code to Implement

Andre Retterath

Insights

🚀 Average Dilution per Stage, Improve Net IRR With Capital Recycling, How Fund Distributions Actually Work & More

Jan 27, 2026

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12 min read

🚀 Average Dilution per Stage, Improve Net IRR With Capital Recycling, How Fund Distributions Actually Work & More

New Research from AngelList, Carta, Mostly Metrics & Others

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

Jan 25, 2026

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8 min read

Should Seed Investors Follow On?

+ Building AI Agents for Finance, The Rise of Solo Founders, VC Concentration & More

Andre Retterath

Essays

Jan 22, 2026

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3 min read

Tickets Available Now!

AI + Automation + Insights for VC/PE/LP Investors

Andre Retterath

Insights

💡Toughest Stage to Invest, How to Fix Cap Tables, Tools for GTM Research, Marketing Teams Under Pressure & More

Jan 20, 2026

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11 min read

💡Toughest Stage to Invest, How to Fix Cap Tables, Tools for GTM Research, Marketing Teams Under Pressure & More

New Research from Dealroom, Sequoia, Carta, The VC Corner & Others

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in January 2026

Jan 18, 2026

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14 min read

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in January 2026

IPO Candidates for 2026 With Data from Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX & More

Andre Retterath

Essays

🔥How to Use Claude Code to Automate Your Work WITHOUT Prior Experience

Jan 15, 2026

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11 min read

🔥How to Use Claude Code to Automate Your Work WITHOUT Prior Experience

Step-by-Step Guide to Setup and Start Your First Project

Andre Retterath

Resources

Building a Hyper-Automated Micro VC With Alex Patow from Inflection

Jan 11, 2026

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8 min read

Building a Hyper-Automated Micro VC With Alex Patow from Inflection

+ a16z Returns, Claude Code Tutorial & More

Andre Retterath

Andre Retterath

Every VC Wants to Automate. Almost Nobody Does It.

💡What "Founder Friendly" Actually Means, What's Too Many Managers?, Startup Funding vs. Hiring Divergence, Fundraising Benchmarks & More

🔥15 Hottest Startups in March 2026

The Question Every VC Is Sitting With Right Now

💡Why First-Time Funds Outperform, Lessons From Scaling to $350M, Startup Survival Rates, ARR Levels at IPO & More

How to Automate Investments With OpenClaw, Claude, n8n & More

Do You Still Need Analysts? The Investment Firm of 2030: Fewer People, Better Decisions

📊Impact of Geo-Focus on Fund Performance, State of Pre-Seed, Rise of Secondaries, Leveraging Personal Emails & More

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in February 2026

How to Create Defensibility in the Age of AI?

🔥Wealth Trends 2026: Where Investment Flows, Can VC Scale?, Seed-to-Series A Graduation, AI Value Framework & More

How Investors Use OpenClaw to Automate Daily Workflows

📣New Speaker Announcement + Limited Discounts🏃‍♀️💨

💥Why Repeat Founders Outperform, ARR Thresholds to Raise in 2026, Hold vs Sell After IPO & More

🔥30 Hottest Startups in February 2026

💥My #1 Recommendation for 2026: Start Using Claude Cowork NOW

🔥Impact of Reserve Strategy on Fund Performance, Building Habits to Find PMF, Top 40 AI x GTM Plays & More

💥Startup Screening With LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

🚀 Average Dilution per Stage, Improve Net IRR With Capital Recycling, How Fund Distributions Actually Work & More

Should Seed Investors Follow On?

Tickets Available Now!

💡Toughest Stage to Invest, How to Fix Cap Tables, Tools for GTM Research, Marketing Teams Under Pressure & More

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in January 2026

🔥How to Use Claude Code to Automate Your Work WITHOUT Prior Experience

Building a Hyper-Automated Micro VC With Alex Patow from Inflection

Become a better investor with data & AI